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Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

Darren Shan

I don’t think anyone ever remembers what they were really like as kids. Adults think they do, but they don’t. Photos and videos don’t capture the real you, or bring back to life the person you used to be. You have to return to the past to do that.
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Kids Past Real
I know who the demon thief is – it’s me!
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Demon Thieves
I sucked blood from one of my best friends
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Best Friend Blood
You didn’t want to die. Most mortals don’t, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you.
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Dream Regret Suicide
Like worms, we’ve grabbed on to the talons of eagles and learned some small truths and means of flight. But we can never really fly. We try, and succeed to a certain extent, but the fall is always – will always be – there.
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Always Fall Learn Small Some
Real life’s nasty. It’s cruel. It doesn’t care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.
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Fight Hero Real Truth
Destiny’s what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.
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Destiny Faces Whatever
To be a druid is to embrace death, dance with it a while, and finally fall prey to it. That is why we’ll never rule this world. We have the power to bend all men to our whim, but are forever pushing ourselves further,trying to fly higher…and falling
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Dance Fall Finally Forever Men
Childhood is the purest state. The pure of heart never leave it behind. Their life merely takes them on a cirtuitous route away from, and then back to it.
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Childhood Heart States
beg you. You’re civilised people. Help me!” “We can’t,” Prae says coldly. “Even if we wanted to – and personally I have no problem with him gutting you – we couldn’t. He’s not ours to control. He’s one of your specimens. You helped create him – now you have to deal with him
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Control Our Personality Say
Of course I have nightmares-Who doesn’t?
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Courses Nightmare
I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?
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Green Hair Mean
It is too easy to say ‘what if’ and paint a picture of a perfect world.
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Perfect Say World
Life is a challenge” he once told me, “and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.
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Challenges Life Mean
but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house
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Fool House Pinder
That’s what you taught me – we don’t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives – we just have to make the choice to use it.
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Choices Destiny Taught

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

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